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Guard Bug and other

Cobbler sticks to his last, and Drei Magier sticks to insects, at least with their quick little pocket-sized card games. Cheat Moth is another one them, once again we need to get rid of our cards as quickly as possible, and this time you are allowed not only to cleverly shed your cards but to dexterously let them disappear, that is to cheat!

One player is given the Guard Bug and lays it out open-faced; each player is dealt eight cards. The top card from the draw pile is turned over to form the first card of the discard pile. In your turn you discard one card from your hand to the discard pile; in order to do so the card must be of a value one higher or one lower than the current top card of the pile. Instead of discarding a card you can play an action card. If you have no valid card to play you draw a card. Any time in the game you can make cards disappear by clever handling, anywhere, somehow, but of course unnoticed; you may only let one card disappear at a time and may not cheat with your last card in hand. If you hold the Guard Bug, you must not cheat and you hand the Guard Bug over if you catch someone cheating. If you are caught cheating you must either take back the card in hand and receive the Guard Bug and are now not allowed to cheat all, or the Guardian must, if he accused you falsely, draw a penalty card and keep the Guard Bug. If you are out of cards all other note the number of their cards as a negative score. After as many rounds as there are players you win with the fewest negative points.

A cute game, quick and fun for children, who love to be allowed to put a card up their sleeves!

Players: 3-5

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Emely und Lukas Brand

Artist: Ralf Vogt

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Drei Magier / Schmidt 2011

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Card shedding game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Quick card game

Simple, standard mechanisms

Fantastic drawings

Being allowed to cheat is fun for children!

Compares to:

All card shedding games with a reaction component

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3